On doing it right

[hawkwing_lb]

Today, a milestone happened.

Today, I have 3,000 words of notes for my thesis. All from just three books, mind you, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to take twice or four times as many notes as there will be actual words in the finished object, but this is significant (I haven't written up my notes for the Plato or Theocritus yet, nor yet the dramatists). This is a magic number.

I can believe in the reality of my thesis now. Three thousand words is more than a twentieth of fifty thousand, which is the minumum requirement of a master's thesis. If I can take three thousand words' worth of notes a month for the next six months, I will account myself happy with my progress.

And then all I have to do is convince my supervisor that this thesis was made for a PhD.

Comments

[katallen.livejournal.com]

You go girl!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

This is the plan.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

You got Trinity to tell you what the minimum requirement for a thesis was ? My hat goes off to you; I spent rather a long time failing at that.

*gives 25kword PhD thesis a guilty look*

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Well, no. I got my supervisor to tell me what the approximate requirement was. :P

*gives 25Kword PHD thesis a slightly envious look* Apparently, the PhD in Arts expects somewhere in the vicinity of 80K.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That is more use in one action that I got out of either supervisor in three and a half years.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I'm getting the impression, between you and my mates in the sciences, that science research supervisors are several difference kinds of either useless or toxic to their research students.